19th Century
Taken By Storm
In mid-19th century Scotland, a poor person in trouble with the law didn’t have much hope of escaping a hard…
Dread Murder
Editors' choice
When Major Mearns, old soldier and sometime spy, receives a large package in his office in Windsor Castle the last…
The Plains Of Promise
It’s 1850, and a group of pioneers, led by English curate Tom Barrett, travels to North Australia to found a…
The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories
The Crimson Petal and the White, Faber’s monumental novel of a Victorian prostitute’s progress, won him fans all over the…
Fortune’s Daughter
When Daisy Belle is told that her daughter Dolly has died from an accident she is devastated, but in reality…
Gathering The Water
Imagine how you would feel if your home was put under a compulsory purchase order and the area turned into…
Fury
Sixteen-year-old Daniel Cooper has witnessed a gruesome murder but no one, except the murderer, believes his accusations. After barely surviving…
Cactus Flower
When Eulalie Gibb travels from Chicago to the New Mexico Territory in the 1890s to take a job as a…
Archie And Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age
Archie Chanler, heir to the Astor fortune, and Amélie Rives were the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald of their day: the…
When The Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
Telling the tale of New York’s famed Astor family, this book takes readers from the family’s humble beginnings in the…
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